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February 2017

Cherry Creek Elementary student, Anna Caldwell, was awarded the Springville Mayor’s Recognition Award in February. She was nominated by her sixth-grade teacher, Sarah Sumsion. Mrs. Sumsion is impressed by Anna’s constant display of service and leadership. Anna served as her class president and was also chosen to be a Lighthouse Representative associated with her school’s Leader in Me program. Mrs. Sumsion describes Anna as always smiling and positive and one step ahead of her half the time! Anna is the daughter of Justin and Tiffany Caldwell.

Cherry Creek has two amazing preschool classes, and today I snuck into Miss Marianne's class to see what these cute kids are learning about! During carpet time, they learned about subway trains and that they go very fast underground. Then they went to table rotations to learn about the letter Q, finding numbers on money, and telling parts of a story. These kids are full of energy, and they love to learn!

Math is hard. That's why Ms. Barrett, our speech-language pathologist, went in to a classroom this week to teach a lesson to students on the language of math. It was amazing to see how quickly students could do quick mental math, but have a hard time telling how they knew which operation to choose based on the words in a problem. Ms. Barrett taught students to look for words like "total" and "all together" to know to use addition, and words like "left" or "difference" to use subtraction. The students then role played number sentences based on word problems involving Mr. Duncan, Crocky, and Pete the Cat. They had a blast!

Last week, Cherry Creek students held their monthly Victory Assembly to celebrate students who received Top Croc and Leader of the Month awards. During the assembly, Mr. Duncan talked about February's "Catch of the Creek", a school-wide improvement challenge. He encouraged students to participate in spirit day every Friday by wearing red. The class with the most students wearing red will get to have a tropy in their classroom for the next week. Another great highlight of the assembly was spotlighting students in each grade level who have met their reading WIG (wildly important goal). Way to go! We truly have amazing students!

Our sixth grade students worked very hard all month to produce a science project. Congratulations to our finalists advancing to the district science fair. Well done to all our students! And we offer a big THANK YOU to all our volunteer judges (parents, Questar employees, staff and high school science scholars). We couldn't have done it without you!